{"id":818873,"date":"2026-10-30T17:16:14","date_gmt":"2026-10-30T17:16:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/818873\/"},"modified":"2026-10-30T17:16:14","modified_gmt":"2026-10-30T17:16:14","slug":"maguire-and-walsh-struggle-at-the-maybank-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/818873\/","title":{"rendered":"Maguire and Walsh struggle at the Maybank Championship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Irish duo Leona Maguire and Lauren Walsh both struggled to make an impact during the second round of the Maybank Championship on Friday.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rte.ie\/sport\/results\/golf\/lpga-tour-1\/29537\/maybank-championship-913258\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">LEADERBOARD<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Japan&#8217;s Miyu Yamashita took sole lead of the tournament in Malaysia as her round of 66 saw her finish the day on 13 under par to leapfrog first-round leader Pauline Roussin-Bouchard.<\/p>\n<p>Roussin-Bouchard wasn&#8217;t able to match her blistering opening-round form and signed for a 69 which leaves her on 11 under alongside Spain&#8217;s Julia Lopez Ramirez.<\/p>\n<p>At the other end of the leaderboard, Maguire and Walsh will be grateful that there&#8217;s no midway cut at this tournament.<\/p>\n<p>Maguire, starting on the 10th hole, was up against it from the very beginning as she hit a double bogey at her first hole.<\/p>\n<p>Her form was up and down after that as four birdies were cancelled out by three bogeys and she eventually signed for a round of 73 that leaves her on one over.<\/p>\n<p>Walsh at least was able to improve on her first round. After a 75 on the first day, she managed a 71 that moves her up to two over for the tournament.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Irish duo Leona Maguire and Lauren Walsh both struggled to make an impact during the second round of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":818874,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[5904,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-818873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-golf","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/818873","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=818873"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/818873\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/818874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=818873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=818873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=818873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}